CVE-2026-33170

medium

Description

Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, `SafeBuffer#%` does not propagate the `@html_unsafe` flag to the newly created buffer. If a `SafeBuffer` is mutated in place (e.g. via `gsub!`) and then formatted with `%` using untrusted arguments, the result incorrectly reports `html_safe? == true`, bypassing ERB auto-escaping and possibly leading to XSS. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.

References

https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-89vf-4333-qx8v

https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1

https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1

https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c1ad0e8e1972032f3395853a5e99cea035035beb

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/6e8a81108001d58043de9e54a06fca58962fc2db

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/50d732af3b7c8aaf63cbcca0becbc00279b215b7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-24

Updated: 2026-03-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018